I hope everyone survived Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. This is a hectic time of year, what with gift buying and parties galore. It's also the time of year when you need to take extra care with your wallets, credit cards and gift cards. The con men out there are just waiting [...]Read Full Article →

Admittedly I don't do much printing these days. Also I'd have to say that i can't think of too many times that I was looking at something on my iPhone and thought "I'd like to print this." However, with the iPad things are a little different. I'm not saying that I suddenly have the need [...]Read Full Article →

She really reminds me of my old bar DJ days when women would dress to “the nines” and come in and nurse a drink all night till a guy that they liked came in and started buying drinks for her. Of course she was there just for some fun and dancing. Recovery The [...]Read Full Article →

AppleInsider and other outlets are reporting that News Corp. is planning on launching an electronic tablet-only "newspaper" called The Daily. It said the "paper" will cost $.99 a week. That got me wondering – who will pay for it? It's not like there aren't plenty of free alternatives. Both the major local papers [...]Read Full Article →

I have a passion for reading that was instilled in me as a very young child. By the time I was 8 or 9, I had worked my way through the children's section of our local library and had written permission on file that gave me access to anything on the shelves. At that time, [...]Read Full Article →

I had the pleasure of attending Macomb Center for the Performing Arts fall exhibit series featuring speaker Steve Wozinak a.k.a. Woz who shared his life experiences leading up to as co-founding Apple Computer. He also discussed the importance of creativity and innovation in education in nurturing entrepreneurship. The arena was sold out, full house, well [...]Read Full Article →

………. Doesn’t mean you don’t have to back it up. Lately there has been an influx of digital devices coming on the fore front. In particular, a lot of no keyboard, no hard drive, touch screen devices. This kinda made me think about the old adage “out of sight, out of [...]Read Full Article →

Whether it be the final frontier or not, space exploration has been a longtime favorite topic for me. I love reading about it, learning about it, seeing the amazing images from the Hubble Telescope and probes sent out on fact finding missions. So it was a [...]Read Full Article →

For people (like me) who came to the Mac from Windows, there's one big difference with many (but not all) programs when you close them. In Windows, closing the program's window usually (99.9% of the time) ends the program. It's removed from system memory (RAM), freeing up that space. On the Mac, however, that's not [...]Read Full Article →

Music and books were a great part of growing up in our family. I had my first phonograph (you know, that thing that played records?) when I was barely walking. Yes, I broke a lot of those old, brittle 78's, but it was mine, and my bedroom was never without music growing up. A lot [...]Read Full Article →

A friend of mine/MacGroup member came by the house last night and told me that she was thinking of buying a new Mac soon. I asked her about her current setup and needless to say it was over 5 years old (she admitted to still using a Floppy based sneaker net between Macs 🙂 ) [...]Read Full Article →

This is now my favorite logo. I have to find out who drew it and give them proper credit. So this week I am spending my week in an Ice Arena and in the Accountant’s room there is a flock of computers. Yes a flock. The accountants have computers for collecting and tabulating scores [...]Read Full Article →

If you take, or want to take, a lot of iPad screenshots you may need to get them to your computer or even get them to someone. Here are few ways to accomplish that task. First of all, to take a screenshot of what is displayed [...]Read Full Article →

Apple recently announced that their Xserve rack-mounted server product was being discontinued. OK, I know what many of you are saying – "Apple sells rack-mounted servers?" Well, for a little while longer, yes. And now some of you are asking, "Why?" I believe that the Xserve was Apple's attempt to get into the [...]Read Full Article →

I have a thing for cases for my iPods. I'm not saying that they are easily scratched, but I tend to toss everything into my bag, so keys, iPods, wallet, assorted junk all end up sloshing against each other. Scratches happen. Additionally, iPods get dropped, and not always on a carpeted surface. This is why [...]Read Full Article →

I've been MobileMe (.mac) customer since day one (iTools user before that). I have no plans of dropping the service anytime soon. However, for those that have no interest in all the benefits of MobileMe, you may find Dropbox to be a great alternative to MobileMe's iDisk for sharing files. Dropbox is by no means [...]Read Full Article →

High Tech Treasure Hunting – Part 2 Geosphere Part one (October 3rd) touched on Geocaching using a Mac and a GPSr. Part two is about using an iPhone for Geocaching. Apple has included GPS capability starting with the iPhone 3G model. Prior to the 3G, location was derived from cell tower [...]Read Full Article →

Friday Friday Friday! It’s my day again. Welcome back for another weekly installment of the one that carries on about BACKUP. I was just sitting here looking at my mail and I saw a sales paper from one of my favorite computer stores. Now I don’t work for or have [...]Read Full Article →

Web cams have become quite a common occurrence. In some cases I've enjoyed watching Old Faithful blow its top, watching the sun rise on Mt. Fuji, and watching the flowing surf of the Hawaiian islands. The world is a beautiful place and there are web cams that [...]Read Full Article →